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AIX

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trustchk needs an option to specify volume group or logical volume (jf2/jfs2) when using the 'tree' option

trustchk has an option (-i) so that it ignores NFS mounted objects. Also needed is a way to limit the 'tree' option to only rootvg, or better to a specific volume group or logical partition (jfs/jfs2). On a AIX node with multiple volume groups, te...
about 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Add details on syslog messages

The current syslog messages around service stop/start/restart do not provide enough information as required by the customer. The requirement is to add the following information to the current syslog message: username (who did the action), time, af...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Is a defect

Please add support for Option 82 to AIX DHCP Server Process

Please add support for DHCP option 82 (i.e. the DHCP Relay Agent information option) to the AIX DHCP Server daemon (/usr/sbin/dhcpsd) so that it correctly handles requests from clients that are received via a DHCP relay agent (such as a Juniper ro...
over 7 years ago in AIX 3 Not under consideration

Automated JFS2 filesystem size growth/shrink

Would like the JFS2 filesystem implementation to be changed so it automatically grows or shrinks based on customer-defined percentages of minimum or maximum size.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

QEMU in AIX YUM repository

Ability to use install QEMU on AIX using "yum install qemu" and possibly "yum install virtmgr". With or without KVM would be fine, though with KVM on the roadmap would be preferred.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

AIX UDFS on any raw device

udfcreate fails when not using optical or USB media.
over 7 years ago in AIX 2 Not under consideration

Provide a secure AIX provisioning process

Modify the AIX provisioning process so that TFTP and NFS are not required and AIX use HTTPS or another secure protocol.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Support of dlpar operations on processor while emstat is running

As discussed in the defect SW402509 (CMVC ID - 1034622), Currently, emstat doesnt support dlpar operations on processor. Please provide support of dlapr operations on processor while emstat process is running.
over 7 years ago in AIX 1 Not under consideration

Updated Firefox package

Updated version of FIREFOX needed (and all pre-requisite software) for some of our applications that run on AIX
over 7 years ago in AIX 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement request in yacc compiler for ipfilter to support more than 68 ippools

Using IP Filter: v4.1.13 (480) on AIX 6.1, 7.1 and 7.2, I observed that creating an ippool with more than 68 ip addresses in it doesn't work as expected. It doesn't give any error while creating an ippool, but when we try to list the pools using i...
over 7 years ago in AIX 5 Not under consideration